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Leasing company AWAS is expected to announce a deal to buy as many as 100 Airbus jetliners valued at $6.9 billion, a sign that the frothy market for jets has yet to die down.





「最近翻到一本旅遊文學，書中主角旅行到希臘、非洲、亞洲時，都常常提到 palm tree。但 palm tree指的究竟是椰子樹還是棕櫚樹呢？」

大陸字典似乎直接稱為「棕櫚」，與我們對Palm Springs等的翻譯通。
palm2 n. 【植】; 枝葉 ((勝利象)); （the ～） 勝利.
bear (away) [carry off] the palm　優勝.
yield [give] the palm to　…勝, 負, …自分敗北認.
Palm Beach　 ((Florida州南東部保養都市)).
palmer　 n. 聖地巡者 ((詣枝持)); 巡.
palm oil　油; .
Palm Springs　 ((California州Los Angeles東方保養都市)).
這名城我1994年去開會過，受公司之招待……
Palm Sunday　Easter直前日曜日.

palmy

(pä'mē) 

adj., -i·er, -i·est.
palmy　 a. 多蔭, 得意.
(in) one's palmy days　人全盛期

1. Of or relating to palm trees.
2. Covered with palm trees.

The city plans to plant a million trees of other types over the next several years so that, as palms die off, most will be replaced with sycamores, crape myrtles and other trees indigenous to Southern California. (Exceptions will be the palms growing in places that tourists, if not residents, demand to see palmy, like Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards.)

1. Prosperous; flourishing: palmy times for stockbrokers.

Admiral William Henry Smyth's 1865 'Sailor's Word-book - an alphabetical digest of nautical terms', which is a treasure trove of nautically inspired phrases, has a definition of the phrase:

"Said when Bristol was in its palmy commercial days - and its shipping was all in proper good order."

froth
verb [I or T]
to (cause a liquid to) have or produce a lot of small bubbles which often rise to the surface:
The waves frothed as they crashed onto the beach.
Shake the drink before serving it to froth it up.

froth  [U]
1 small white bubbles on the surface of a liquid:
I like the froth on the top of the coffee.

2 something which is not serious and has no real value but which is entertaining or attractive:
His books are just froth, but they're enjoyable enough.

frothy
adjective
(of a liquid) with small white bubbles on the surface:
Beat the mixture until it becomes frothy.
frothy coffee
resort (PLACE)
noun [C]
a place where many people go for rest, sport or another stated purpose:
a tourist resort
a UK holiday/US vacation resort
a seaside/beach resort
a ski resort
See also resort to.